On Monday October 5th, the fight against the H1N1 virus began as Tennessee and Indiana health workers began publicly administering the new vaccine. There is already immediate concern, however, in terms of the...
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At least one in three Canadians will come down with the H1N1 swine flu virus this year and health officials are warning that young, healthy adults are just as much at risk. Nearly two-thirds of Canadians who have been hospitalized and half of those who died had no other...
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Swine flu transferable from factory farmed animals to humans. The combined swine-bird-human flu is causing a global health threat that is...
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On Thursday, June 11th, Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, issued a statement indicating that enough "scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic" has been met for the WHO to declare Influenza A (H1N1), also known as the swine flu...
A sharp increase in people infected with swine flu in Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines could tip the H1N1 virus into epidemic status, said the World Health Organisation on Wednesday. Over 1,200 people have contracted the virus in Australia, four times the amount...
The latest Swine Flu update suggests that WHO may elevate the global pandemic alert for H1N1 from level 5 to level 6 in the next few days. The H1N1 virus continues to spread rapidly and is now found in 64 nations world wide. While H1N1 Swine Flu first surfaced in...
The Swine Flu has reached India and Turkey with their first cases recorded when the H1N1 virus was detected at the airport screening. A 23-year old passenger from the United States has been quarantine at the...
Richard Besser, the head of the U.S. CDC, in his infinite wisdom, is warning that having a "swine flu party" to get the A(H1N1) flu virus as a dubious form of protection against a future strain is, well, "a bad...
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"Factory farms....manufacture low-cost flesh, with a side-dish of viruses to go". Johann Hari, The Independent, 1st May 2009.
I don't know about you: my picture of how and where this flu virus started was of...
Ohio State University has sent out a Swine Flu alert after an unnamed student of the Stradley Hall dorm was identified as a probable case of H1N1 virus infection. The student was exposed to the virus by family members who have been formally diagnosed with Swine Flu...
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Rather than look at today’s version of a flu pandemic, which involves hundreds of cases at most, I wanted to find out what it was like to live during the influenza outbreak of 1918 when 50 million people around...